200 sats \ 4 replies \ @elvismercury 3 Mar \ on: A dozen completely random things I learned this week: mostly_harmless
This is an interesting one. Sci-fi is, more than anything, imagining other possibilities for how the world could be, how people could be together, what it means to be a person. On a lot of these vectors woke makes sense -- thinking of Samuel R. Delaney here, for example. On other vectors, you can see woke + anti-woke living together -- Heinlein comes to mind.
Mostly, I think it's the baggage we're carrying around. In another fifty years, some of the currently canceled may be redeemed, and vice-versa.
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I think that's mostly right -- more thinking around than thinking ahead, though, at least the good ones. Sticking to Heinlein, he's at once more "progressive" than most writing today, but also more "regressive". Which is which is in the eye of the beholder.
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I agree with this on Heinlein. I was kind of going through the sci-fi canon after pirating Dune 2 (a visual masterpiece my god), starting back with Lovecraft working through Asimov to about Gibson. Like damn, I didn't even know the wild controversy StarTrek caused in the 60s when it showcased the world's first interracial kiss on film. Or how Asimov got put on the FBI watchlist for his socialist and anti-religious views. Kind of an endless list of stuff. It's not all of them course, but the sci-fi canon much like you and @doofus were saying.
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Utopian vision
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